Two Days of Darkness: Gothicfest 2007

One thing I will say about Gothicfest is Jeff Swanson does a good job putting this one together every year and it was an impressive set - I didn't really get a chance to do an interview but I was in no shape to be interviewed (exhausted from three days lack of sleep and losing my voice.) Doing book signings at events like this are always hit and miss. The only reason it was slow for the writers in general is that it was raining like mad on the second day. Even my signing mates didn't really sell any books - they were cool people to hang out with and yeah I wouldn't mind going on tour with them.

It seems like Jeff out does himself every event he does. The fact I am grateful that I am able to come out and do the event every year (or this one was two years because it took two years planning it.) It was well executed but the thing I think that I should suggest and recommend for next year is have a mass book signing. All the authors having a table and put their stuff out, the authors involved have a row all to themselves. I can compare notes on this one because I was at the 2005 incarnation the bands were good there but I had a family emergency which I had to take during my book signing so I made it up later in the night.

It was two days worth of darkness inside the event this year because it was one of those things that could been a twilight zone episode for me because there were a lot of things that happened on my part that let a lot of bad luck to my signing. My ex-room mate showed up and had to be everywhere that I needed to be and her friend stalked me the second part of the first night when I was trying to make a few sales and sabotaged those (this bitch is done in Chicago. I had to have one of the bouncers keep a look out for the loser.) I almost got into a fight too that first night and was trying to avoid it. All in all it was an okay night - there were plenty of moments there I found myself freaking out. The nice thing was that they did allow ins and outs this year so I was making food runs for the writers at my table. The writers this year I was signing with were the first time I met them and damn they were good writers in their own right.